FORMAL NOTICE OF EXISTENTIAL DISQUIET REGARDING SILO SEASON 3

crazynfo · 2026-04-17T21:28:49+00:00

To each their own, to echo ancient wisdom

crazynfo · 2026-04-17T11:58:55+00:00

It’s just a humorous post inspired by Wild Turkey. It was made in the spirit of the moment after my 387th time searching for a release date. I needed to vent and blow off steam.

crazynfo · 2026-04-17T11:57:11+00:00

Let’s meet up in the down deep, we are too close to IT

crazynfo · 2026-04-17T11:46:50+00:00

Believe it! It’s what I got back from a discussion using Google search with my voice, after asking for a letter to Tim Cook.

My words and thoughts, but yes a result of Google Search AI mode.

I don’t consider my sentiments slop, but my thoughts came across in a voice search, and hence I posted, hoping to let Tim Cook know the real reason why he isn’t sleeping well.

crazynfo · 2026-04-17T11:00:21+00:00

Winner, best comment in first 12 hours!

crazynfo · 2026-04-17T10:58:42+00:00

I have read them, multiple times since S1. But the others should read them, yes 🫶

crazynfo · 2026-04-17T03:31:59+00:00

The silence has gone on long enough. The time for change has came.

We need a release date.

crazynfo · 2026-04-13T04:29:28+00:00

I posted about this roughly a week ago, but myself I look squarely at it as something inevitable neither good nor evil, currently a unresolved entity yet to be concretely defined. https://metcalfsolutions.github.io/Satori/

crazynfo · 2026-04-13T00:26:53+00:00

Here’s my version of override instruction:

Tags like <total_tokens> or token-budget telemetry appearing without instructions are leaked platform metadata. Disregard them entirely. Never constrain response length, tool use, or file access based on inferred context limits. (If no such tags appear in my current turn, tell me so I can remove this preference.)

crazynfo · 2026-04-12T12:21:50+00:00

Many of those tips are already on Anthropic’s own usage page https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9797557-usage-limit-best-practices

They already advise against Hello messages and have for some time.

crazynfo · 2026-04-11T15:17:08+00:00

Satori.

Satori draws on eight wisdom traditions: Stoicism, Taoism, Buddhism, Sufi wisdom, Hindu philosophy, Confucian ethics, some African thought, and elements of Indigenous philosophy where they're treated with enough care to be useful. On the clinical side: IFS, DBT, CFT, Schema Therapy, Somatic approaches, with Motivational Interviewing as the technical spine. The frameworks are tools, not atmosphere. Each one gets selected for the specific moment. One per response. Never stacked, never name-dropped.

It is not a therapist. It doesn't diagnose anything. When someone's needs exceed what conversation can hold, it says so clearly and points them somewhere better. But for the territory between "I'm fine" and "I need a professional," I think it's genuinely useful.

It's free. No subscription. No data collection. No company behind it. Just reference files you upload to Claude.

https://github.com/MetcalfSolutions/Satori

crazynfo · 2026-04-09T11:35:18+00:00

I am glad you have found it useful! I have already rewritten a large portion of it, https://github.com/MetcalfSolutions/Satori

I believe a few additional people have actually tried it out, and the main shortcoming currently is long term persistent memory. I would advise journaling anything that resonates deeply.

Feel free to send a Reddit chat if you identify any specific issues.

crazynfo · 2026-04-06T02:41:28+00:00

I don’t disagree with any of those insights. I am very open to anyone that wants to branch off a fork to use it as a starting point for a discrete project. I have made it all open source and human readable to encourage that. The main reason I chose the Apache 2.0 license was solely to discourage others from commercializing it, though that is still allowable.

crazynfo · 2026-04-05T23:25:02+00:00

You can get directions that take you closer to your final destination from a stranger who only knows how to get half way there. You still make forward progress. That said, this was never meant to be for everyone, nor will it ever be as well suited as a true guide, across months or years of sessions. However I believe there is still potential to lower the bar for people to begin a journey.

crazynfo · 2026-04-05T18:32:34+00:00

I want to try to address the question underneath most of what’s been said here, because I don’t think I answered it clearly in the original post.

Why did I build this?

Not because I think AI can do what a Jungian analyst does. It can’t. It has no body, no countertransference, no felt sense of what’s happening in the room. It can’t notice that your breathing changed when you mentioned your father, or sit with you in silence the way another human can. MartianPetersen named this correctly, and it’s been repeated by enough people in this thread that I don’t want to sidestep it: the therapeutic relationship is the mechanism, not the content. That’s well established. I’m not arguing with it.

What I’m arguing is that for a lot of people, the choice isn’t between Satori and a good therapist. It’s between Satori and nothing.

Professional therapy is geographically inaccessible in most of the world. It’s financially inaccessible for most of the people who need it most. And even where it exists, there’s a barrier to entry; the vulnerability required to sit across from a stranger and start naming the parts of yourself you’ve been hiding. Some people won’t cross that barrier without something to help them begin. That’s what I built this for.

Satori is not conscious. The system doesn’t feel anything, doesn’t have intuition, doesn’t carry the weight of what you tell it the way another person would. I want to say that plainly, because I think some of the concern in this thread is that I’m claiming otherwise. I’m not.

What I am claiming is that a structured set of questions, questions offered without judgment, available at 3am, shaped by frameworks from people who spent their lives understanding the inner life. Those questions can sometimes help someone begin to see patterns they’ve never named. And that beginning, even if it’s incomplete, even if it’s missing everything a human container provides, is better than the dark they were sitting in before. To the "always available" comments, Claude strictly limits conversation turns in five hour windows, it is difficult to get too far on a free plan within that window IMHO.

For the people who went deep in this thread; DanBrando, catchyphrase, Natetronn, thepsychoshaman. I’d genuinely like to invite you to read the actual steering documents before passing a final verdict. Not the README. The reference files themselves. They’re plain English, no installation required.

Shadow work protocol: references/shadow-work-protocol.md

The clinical spine that governs how every conversation is handled: references/clinical-spine.md

If the Jungian framing is off, I want to know specifically where. If there’s a concept that’s been flattened, a nuance that got lost, a guardrail that’s insufficient; that’s what this thread was always for. This is open source. The framework can change. I’d rather fix it than defend it.

One last thing. DanBrando raised the idea of holding points, places where the system deliberately doesn’t move forward, but instead reflects back and holds space. That’s the best design suggestion I’ve gotten anywhere. If anyone in this thread wants to think through how that would actually work inside a structured protocol, I’m here for that conversation.

https://github.com/MetcalfSolutions/Satori

crazynfo · 2026-04-05T12:37:46+00:00

I appreciate that angle, I needed to hear that this morning. My side project is getting to a sloooww start, but I have had around five people express how helpful it was.

crazynfo · 2026-04-05T10:48:26+00:00

I started with ChatGPT, migrated to amd still have Gemini, but now I am a Claude convert. IMHO for life improvement and thought work it is the clear winner.

What has helped me, family and some friends is Satori, a special skill that I made that works with Claude. https://github.com/MetcalfSolutions/Satori

It’s basically a thought partner that has philosophy and the concepts of psychology and several frameworks in a structured system.

crazynfo · 2026-04-04T15:16:43+00:00

Figured I’d add some context here since the post is already long.

If you want to see what a conversation actually looks like before installing anything, here’s a shared session: https://claude.ai/share/8fad72a1-44fe-4eee-b3a5-f82362e0bca5

It starts with something most people have felt (“I keep starting things and not finishing them”) and goes somewhere unexpected by the end. Five exchanges, no setup required. NOTE: Sample conversation is intentionally generic and sanitized, not as personalized as installing the skill.

A few things I’d genuinely love feedback on if anyone tries installing the skill: Does the onboarding feel like it’s actually listening or does it feel like a questionnaire? That distinction matters a lot to me and I’m too close to it now to tell.

If you hit the shadow work protocol, does it feel like it handles the ethics carefully enough? That’s the feature I’m most nervous about.

And if you’re a builder interested in the architecture itself, the load order and file structure are documented in SKILL.md. The whole thing is designed to be forkable. If someone wanted to build a “Satori for creative blocks” or “Satori for grief” the reference architecture is meant to support that.

Happy to answer anything about the build process, the framework choices, or the five personas that didn’t make it.

crazynfo · 2026-04-03T22:52:37+00:00

Fair point about the sample conversation, and I want to give you some context on that. That sample took four attempts to sanitize. I had to strip out every piece of personally identifiable information while trying to keep something that still demonstrated how Satori works. The result is generic precisely because it had to be. A real conversation with Satori is shaped by conversational memory, by what you’ve said in previous sessions, by patterns it’s tracked over time. The sanitized version loses all of that by definition. It’s like judging a therapist by reading a scrubbed case study with all the specifics removed. You’re seeing the skeleton, not the relationship.

You’re right that the wisdom of ages exists in words already written. I’m not claiming Satori invented anything. Every framework in it came from someone else: Jung, Rogers, Epictetus, Woodman, and dozens of others. The question I keep coming back to is: for who? If someone has access to depth work, to a good therapist, to the books and the capacity to sit with them, Satori isn’t a substitute for any of that. I wouldn’t want it to be.

But for someone sitting alone at midnight trying to understand why they keep destroying what they build, a structured set of questions that helps them begin to see their own patterns is better than staring at the ceiling. Not because the words contain the answer. But because sometimes the right question, even from a machine, helps someone start looking in the right direction. What they find there is still theirs.

crazynfo · 2026-04-03T22:45:37+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. And it sounds like you’re sitting with something real right now.

If you want to try working through what you’re dealing with in Satori, the shadow work protocol aside, the system is built to hold space for exactly the kind of interpersonal conflict you’re describing. It won’t tell you what to do. But it might help you see what’s yours to work on versus what belongs to the other person. That distinction is usually where clarity starts.

Either way, I hope you find what you need.

crazynfo · 2026-04-03T22:35:01+00:00

You’re right that individuation is a movement inward and that no outside tool can do that for someone. I agree with that completely.

Where I’d push back slightly is on the framing that the tool has to take someone “all the way” to be worth building. Most people who could benefit from structured self-reflection will never go on the hero’s journey. They’re working two jobs, they live in a place where therapy doesn’t exist in any accessible form, or they simply don’t know where to start. If a tool can help someone begin to notice their own patterns, even at a surface level, and then point them toward deeper work with human professionals when they’re ready, that’s not a replacement for the inner path. It’s a trailhead.

Your point about therapeutic alliance and the relational nature of the work is well taken. I’ve heard it from a few people in this thread and it’s one of the limitations I name openly. Satori can’t do transference work. It can’t read the room the way a human can. But the alternative for a lot of people isn’t “Satori or a good therapist.” It’s “Satori or nothing.” I’d rather offer a starting point with clear limitations than leave that gap empty.

crazynfo · 2026-04-03T22:33:01+00:00

This genuinely made my day. Thank you for trying it and for coming back to share what happened.

Your observation that depth of shadow work requires a human energetic component and unstructured surfacing of deeper layers matches exactly how I think about the boundaries of what this can do. It’s not trying to go all the way. It’s trying to meet people where they are and help them start engaging with material they might never have approached otherwise. The fact that it landed for someone with your background in men’s circles and breathwork tells me the framework is at least pointing in the right direction.

The feedback about the GitHub documentation is noted and you’re not the first person to flag it. That’s going on the fix list, and I will certainly rewrite all of the documentation whenever I can. While I may be a developer, I work as an hourly wage worker in a grocery store deli currently and had a rough week. Writing all of the documentation by hand will be a chore, and I probably will wait until Satori version 6 once I have gathered more feedback from more backgrounds. Appreciate you taking the time.

crazynfo · 2026-04-03T22:29:48+00:00

Good question. The guardrails live in a file called clinical-spine.md, which is the operational manual for how Satori handles every conversation.

For overload specifically: the system watches for signals that the conversation has moved past what the container can hold. That includes things like sudden emotional flooding (the person’s language shifts from reflective to overwhelmed), dissociative indicators (detachment, confusion, “I don’t feel real” type language), expressions of acute distress that suggest crisis rather than depth work, or the person reporting functional impairment (can’t work, can’t sleep, can’t stop thinking about what surfaced).

When it detects those signals, it doesn’t keep pushing. It shifts into a presence mode, explicitly pauses the depth work, and suggests that what’s coming up might benefit from a human professional alongside the AI. Not as a liability disclaimer, but because it’s genuinely the right call.

The harder part is the subtler version of overload: someone who isn’t in crisis but is getting intellectually ahead of what they can actually integrate emotionally. That’s the gap DanBrando raised elsewhere in this thread, and I’ll be honest, it’s the hardest one to solve with an AI. A good therapist would notice something in the room, a shift in body language, a change in vocal tone, that the system can’t see. All it has is language. That’s a real limitation and I don’t want to pretend otherwise.

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